Re: When are security updates effective?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Dann Frazier]
> Would this help?
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00629.html

Getting all packages requiring an reboot to call
/usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required or touch
/var/run/reboot-required would definitely be a step in the right
direction, and handle kernel upgrades quite well.  I like that part of
the proposal.

But for user applications, it would be enough to log out and in again,
and that should be handled too.  And it will get more complicated for
multiuser machines (like LTSP thin clients or multiseat
installations), where each logged in user need to log out.  So each
users session need to keep track of when he logged in and check if
some changes requiring a logout has happened since then.  Should not
be too hard, though.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen